Diplomatic Security Foundation Incorporated

Analysis

Diplomatic Security Foundation Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Chantilly, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Diplomatic Security Foundation Incorporated reported income of $321k and spending of $285k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $202k to $321k (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Diplomatic Security Foundation Incorporated sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Center for Orthopaedic Trauma Advancement ($321k), Bay Area Chamber Foundation Inc ($321k) and Agc of Georgia Foundation Inc ($320k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 115% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $15k, net assets of $1.2m.